I have had a few years off vegetable gardening.This year, it all seems to be taking off faster than I can keep up with it. This might be partly due to applying a dig-in fertiliser before planting.

In order of planting, from right to left, we have pumpkin (you can almost see it growing!), cucumber, corn, tomatoes (cherry tomatoes are staked up, ordinary tomato plants are younger, smaller and don’t need any attention yet). Then we have capsicum, silver beet and beetroot. Finally in the fat left, some cauliflower and broccoli seedlings I planted out this morning on the back of 14 mm of rain in last night’s storm.

I discovered last year that the key to good broccoli is lots of fertiliser. I hope that I can get that right this year.

We should get some good healthy food in a couple of months.